St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-24

w NlSCOLSlll, ana prevent ner from go
ing to Salt Lake City. The request was
made at the instance of a daughter of Mrs.
Barnes, who lives in New Brighton. 1t is
said Mrs. Barnes, who is accompanied by
her second husband, desires to go to her
daughter, but her husband will not consent
The Irish Catholic Benevolent Union, in
session at Washington, has elected the fol-
lowing officers President, Michael Glennan,
Norfolk, Va; first vice president, J. J. Behan,
Kingston, Pa; second vice president, Rev.
Father William Walsh, of Memphis, Tenn.
secretary, Martin l. ]. Griffin, Philadelphia; ;
treasurer, Rev. James Henry St. Louis. Ex-
ecutive committee-Walter Walsh, of ST..
Louis; William H. Kelly Columbus, O.; M.
B. Harlow, Alexandria, Va.
Seven out of nine counties in Missouri in
an election on local option voted in favor of
prohibition. There are now thirty prohibi-
ton counties in that State.
The governor of Massachusetts, has nomi-
mated Marcus P. Knowlton, of Springfield,
for justice of the Supreme Court, to succeed
William S. Gardner, resi- signed. Judge knOwl-
ton is at present on the Supreme Bench.
President Cleveland has received at the
White House Bishop Ireland and Rev. James
A. Steven, of the Roman Catholic Mission
School, the subject of the interview being
Indian affairs. Subsequently, by appoint
ment, the members of the Irish Catholic
Benevolent Union called at the White House
and were presented to the President.
A vein of salt struck at Ellsworth, Kan, in
the we'll of the Ellsworth Mining Company,
at a depth of 730 feet, has reached
thickness of 155 feet, and the bottom has
not yet been reached. 1t is pure rock salt.
1t is claimed to be the thickest vein in the
world
The veteran Association of the Sixth
New York Cavalry" has been organized in
New York city, and committee appointed
to take charge of the erection of monument
at Gettysburg.
Twenty posts of the Grand Army of the
Republic have been the guests of Watkin
Water Post, in Shenandoah, Pa. Ad-
dresses were made by Auditor General Stew
art, Chaplain Sayers and Thomas H. Kay, of
Philadelphia Department Commander Har-
per, of Pit:sburg, and Senior Vice Com
mander John E. Giles.
The anniversary of the battle of Chepul-
tepec has been celebrated in the City of
Mexico. Speeches were made eulogizing the
gallantry Of the young cadets who fell de-
Tending the castle against the American
troops.
Wharton Barker, of Philadelphia, arrived
in Washington, and he and Count Mitkie-
wicz presented the decree granting the con-
cessons to the Chinese minister. The decree
was compared with that sent to the Chinese
minister by his government, and was found
to agree. The Chinese minister pronounced
it law.
The bank examiner investigating the af-
fairs of the Biddeford Savings Institution at
Saco, Me-, which was robbed by young Nc
Nelly thinks the bank will have surplus
of half a million dollars.
Kraft, Goss & Co. and the Illinois Wire
Fence Company, of Joliet, H., have failed.
Both concerns were operated by the same
proprietors. Kraft, Goss & Co. had paid
up cash capital of 100000, and the Wire
Fence Company paid-up capital of $40, 600.
The failure is traced to that Of Sherman &
Marsh, who owed the firm of E. S. Wheeler
& Co. and the New Haven Wire Company
$4,000. Judgments for s56 932 in favor of
Alexander Goss, the principal backer of both
concerns, have been entered.
The General Council of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in the United States and
Canada is in session in Greenville, Pa. This
is the supreme body of this branch of the
church in America. 1t represents nine
synods, 993 ministers, 1885 congregations,
council supports about half of the twenty
six Lutheran colleges in the United States
and four theological seminaries.
The steamships City of Columbia and City
of Atlanta have been sold at auction'in New
York under judgment of foreclosure to
Chas. M. Englis, the first namedfo S150o 600
and the last named for $4,000
N. Decker, living in Elba, Mimi, sold
farm some weeks ago, receiving $1,000 for it,
which he kept secreted in his residence,
thinking the bank unsafe. While Mr..
Decker was absent the other day his wife
went to a spring for water, some ten min
utes' walk from the dwelling, leaving six
months-old child in the house. Upon re-
turning she found the house in flames and
the money gone. She barely escaped with
the child. The building and contents were
DESTROYED and there was no insurance.
A severe thunderstorm has passed over
Lancaster and Chester counties, Pa. In
Lancaster county the barns of John Eaby,
in Salisbury township, and Amos Hook, in
Millersville, were destroyed by lightning,
with their contents. -Four horses and mule
in George Mann's stable. at Manor, were
killed. At Bart, the public schoolhouse was
struck, and the teacher and thirteen pupils
were stunned In Chester county the house
of Kersey Rogers, in East Goshen township,
was fired by lightning and destroyed, with
the furniture. Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers and two
children were stunned.
Full particulars Of the fire at Newburg,
Ontario, show that nearly fifty families are
left without shelter; that not business man
escaped the confagration, and that only two
or three carried any insurance, and these for
small amounts.
Two hundred and twenty-five pounds o
dualin exploded in the Wilbur mine at
Kingston, Ontario, doing great damage and
seriously injuring workman named Dunn.
All the men had left the mine only five min
utes before.